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In getting a new driveway, it became obvious that the mailbox was clumsy, random, so uncivilized. This one made it 12+ years; the only mailbox I built that actually made it to the curb (unlike my AT-AT one that was too bulky and heavy). It was meant to resemble the Endor shield bunker, but after a week or so, the mailman refused to deliver mail because he had to open the doors to the side, not pulling it down. I had to nail a metal box to the top, and he had the nerve to put a note in the box saying "it looks great." Yeah.

Looks kind of like it could be used as a bird house. You could train pigeons to open the box and bring the mail to you. That could have been useful at my parents' house, as the mailbox was close to a 200 meter walk from the house.

Looks kind of like it could be used as a bird house. You could train pigeons to open the box and bring the mail to you.

But then I'd have to kick out the spiders and earwigs. As it is, those creepy crawlies will have to find a new pad. I'll see if I can find an old "new" pic of it, back in its heyday; before the dark times, before the Empost-ire... but alas, it was from the pre-digital age and I don't have a scan of it. But I know I made it before Episode I (and perhaps even before I joined SSG ), so that'd put it around early '99.

So I've been away for awhile, mostly because I'd stopped receiving e-mail notifications for these forums (they've recently started arriving again for some reason) but also, while I was away, I welcomed my first child - Gabriel. Thought I'd share some of these pics:

So I've been away for awhile, mostly because I'd stopped receiving e-mail notifications for these forums (they've recently started arriving again for some reason) but also, while I was away, I welcomed my first child - Gabriel. Thought I'd share some of these pics: